The Agile Architecture Revolution

A sneak peek at up-and-coming trends in IT, a multidimensionalvision for achieving business agility through agilearchitectures The Agile Architecture Revolution places IT trends intothe context of Enterprise Architecture, reinventing EnterpriseArchitecture to support continuous business transformation. Itfocuses on the challenges of large organizations, while placingsuch organizations into the broader business ecosystem thatincludes small and midsize organizations as well as startups. * Organizes the important trends that are facing technology inbusinesses and public sector organizations today and over the nextseveral years * Presents the five broad organizing principles calledSupertrends: location independence, global cubicle, democratizationof technology, deep interoperability, and complex systemsengineering * Provides a new perspective on service-oriented architecture inconjunction with architectural approaches to cloud computing andmobile technologies that explain how organizations can achievebetter business visibility through IT and enterprisearchitecture Laying out a multidimensional vision for achieving agilearchitectures, this book discusses the crisis points that promisesudden, transformative change, unraveling how organizations'spending on IT will continue to undergo radical change over thenext ten years.